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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

How Not to Handle Sex, Drugs and Violence at Job Corps

An operator of Job Corps centers failed to properly discipline problem students at three of its sites for incidents that included drug...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Summer Jobs Programs Hard to Assess

The summer youth employment opportunities funded by the Recovery Act could not find jobs for every participant, but the Department of...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Job Corps Turns 45

With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday last month with robotics demonstrations and testimonies from...

News

The Economic Case for Dropout Fight

Wise: “The best economic stimulus is a high school diploma.” In a time of economic unease, dropout-prevention leaders are stepping up...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

eGFI

http://www.egfi-k12.org This outlet of the American Society for Engineering Education aims to advance its K-12 engineering education agenda – in particular for...

News

In Information Age, College Access Still Requires That Personal Touch

Baltimore – To help America’s low-income youths navigate the often frustrating and confusing process of getting into college, youth workers and...

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Success Stories Abound at Job Corps 45th Anniversary Celebration

With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday this week with Job Corps students from around...

News

Report Details Waste in College Improvement Funds

A Maryland college spent nearly $80,000 in federal grant money on “numerous student trips to locations such as resorts and amusement parks,”...

Getting Students by Hook or Crook

Fake it ’til you make it. That could easily be the motto of a proprietary college chain that took extraordinary measures...

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Report Makes Economic Case for Dropout Fight

The best way to stimulate the economy is to get more students to graduate from high school and go to college. That’s...

Should Everyone Go to College?

In the big push to get larger numbers of youths to obtain more than just a high school education, college needs...

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Costs Up, Faculty Down at Public Colleges

Higher tuition. Less faculty. That’s the story among colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a new Center on Budget...

World Leader in Percentage of College Graduates by 2020?

The lofty goal of making the United States the world leader in college-degree holders by 2020 is doable, but the reform...

Study That Algebra!

What makes a community college student focused enough to stay in school and finish? Apparently being poor makes a student more...

News

HBCUs, California Colleges Emerge as Top Colleges for ‘Social Mobility’

If you’re searching for the colleges and universities that are best at getting low-income students into and through college, think black...

News

Head of Job Corps Removed; No Replacement Named

The national director of the Office of Job Corps has been removed from her office by U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis,...

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A Job Big Enough for a Nonprofit and a For-Profit

Indio, Calif.—The federally funded Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) in this desert town is run by a muscular ex-ballplayer everyone calls Rock. He’s...

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Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV

U.S. Government Accountability Office States are doing what they can to implement performance measures under a federal accountability law for career...

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